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The 1940 Democratic National Convention was held at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Illinois from July 15 to July 18, 1940. The convention resulted in the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace from Iowa was nominated for vice president .
The 1940 United States presidential electionwas the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent DemocraticPresident Franklin D. Rooseveltdefeated Republicanbusinessman Wendell Willkieto be reelected for an unprecedented third term in office. Until 1988, this was the last time in which the ...
1.24 Franklin Roosevelt vs Thomas Dewey vs John Garner. ... July 16, 1940 1,626 (A) 44.3%: 43.1% 0.3% 12.4% 1.2: Gallup Poll News Service July 11, 1940
Eight decades ago, one such defender of freedom — or, at least, a resolute opponent of Nazism — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, unleashed his Justice Department on another small-town, family ...
July 7, 1940 (Sunday) Italy granted permission to the French to keep their Mediterranean bases armed. [6] General elections were held in Mexico. Manuel Ávila Camacho was elected president, claiming 93.9% of the vote. Born: Ringo Starr, drummer for The Beatles, in Dingle, Liverpool, England.
No Ordinary Time. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II is a 1994 historical, biographical book by American author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin published by Simon & Schuster . Based on interviews with 86 people who knew them personally, the book chronicles the lives of President ...
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The March on Washington Movement (MOWM), 1941–1946, organized by activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin [1] was a tool designed to pressure the U.S. government into providing fair working opportunities for African Americans and desegregating the armed forces by threat of mass marches on Washington, D.C. during World War II.